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Gray-beard and thoughtless youth- new, as be looked upon her. That the prisoner spake the truth. Out from their pockets came kerchifs, Out from their eyes sprang tears, nd out from old, faded wallets, Treasures boarded for years. The Judge'* face was astody- The strongest yon ever saw. As be cleared his throat and murmured Something about the law, For one so learned In such matters. So wise in dealing with men. He seemed, on a simple question. Sorely puzzled Just then. But no one blamed him or wondered. When at last these words they beard: The sentence of this young prisoner i present, deferred- blamed him or wondered, And tenderly led ti When be « rod tenderly Illmselt the **Rullty" TABERNACLE SEKM0K8. B¥ BEV. T. DeWITT TALMACE. Spiritualism An Imposture. There shall not be found among y< consulter with tamlilar spit its. or a wizard, or a necromancer, for all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord-— Deuteronomy, xzlil., 3 re snrronnded by myster, behind ns, to tbs tight ' mystery. > the left of t realm unexplored that > Uoobt, will yet nup have who explores that realm will do the world more service than did ever a Columbus or an Amerigo Yespueci. There t>e accounted tor, appearances which defy investigation, so many things approxi the spectral, so many effecti n to hav< i betw mfficient there are commnni this world and the n lonbt, the spirits world there •>f our departed going front thi to that, and, according to the Bible, ministering spirits coming from tl 'is. I do not know bat that so there may be complete and c< and unmistakable lines of co inunication opened between this wo and the next. To unlatch the d- between the present state and the fu ture state all the fingers of Mipen have been busy. We hai titled “Footfalls on the Ilonndi Other Worlds/* “The Debatable Land 'between this World and the N. . Researches into the Phenomena of Spiritualism,” and whole libi hocus-pocus, enough to deceive the very elect. I shall not take time this morning to rehearse the history of div ination, Delphic Oracle, sibyl, or palm istry, or the whole centuries of posture. Modern spiritualism propos es to open the door between this world and the next and put ns into communi cation with the dead. It has never yet offered one reasonable credential. There is nothing in the intelligence or character of the founders of spiritnal- to commend it. All the wonder ful thiugs performed by slight-of-hand and rank deception. Dr. Carpenter, Robert Houdin, Mr. Waite and others have exposed the fraud by dramatizing 'u the presence of audiences the very hiogs that spiritualism proposes to !o or aays it has done. In the New York Independent there was an ac- :<»uut of a challenge given by a non* •piritualist to a spiritualist the platform of Tremont Tem- >le, Boston. The non-spiritualist de lated that he would by slight-of-hand perform all the feats executed by the —I.--. nnu . s_ .a. p re#enco The first leading remark I-bare «, make.ia regard tA .spiritualism is, that it tea very elddootrine. : Doyou want to-kfow the origin - and the .history of aalism in America iras horn-in 1847, >“ .nriVsviilc, Wayne otiuiUy. New lork.MwM mis night there was a rap- pjn« at the d.H.r of Michavl'Wrekman, aqd a fc-c.md rapping .at 4lA*.wioor, and the iI.mh was a^n idhle knnckl.. In that « an who felt « [died ti ad. that lopped h.»a«e tlx •Id hand^pass ipiritualLlic influence, bile, Mr. Fox with his family that house, tru’d then they After bad Imuginga at the d->or every night * One night. Mr. Fox cried out* “Are vnu a spirit?’' . Two reps, answer in the affirmative. 4 *Are vnn nn ininp-4 the affirmative. “Are yoo spirit?” - Two raps, answer innhe affirmative.. Then they Anew right a peddle awe'v that it its* the *p;'i vho” had h.i ‘ ‘ ears before, and who had beau rubbed f his $000. Whether the spirit of the (•eddler came back to collect his $500 his hours I do not know. But from that time on there was a citemeut around the ptemises, and the xciteinent spread all over the land, ml Judge Edmunds had his head turned by the excitenieut, and he says that he saw a bell start from the top of »heif in a closet and heard it ring tr the heads of the people who were the closet, then swing to the back parlor and ring over the heads of the people in the back parlor, ‘then awing the front parlor and ring heads of the people in the front parlor the floor. A young have been lifted from the earth and carried through the air by au invisible power, and giving an account of it be says he went so rapid ly he conld not coant the post* of the d he held in his hand a saw- bnck and a square, and he says, while they rattled together aud made All these are People said: religi* Well, now at in all ages there have beeu necro mancers—those who consulted witb the spirits of the departed—charmers who threw people into a mesmeric le, sorcerers who by eating poison- herbs can see every thing, hear every thing and tell everything, astrologers 'ho found out a new dispel >e stars, experts iu palmistry who can tell by the lines in the palin of your id your origin, your history and your destiny.^ From the cavern on nt Parnassus, it is said, there i up an air, an atmosphere that ated the sheep and the goats that i near by, and under its influence hepherds were lifted into exalta- so that they could foretell future events and consult with familiar spir- rnoat blessed and happy and glorious. And uonc shall murmur or misdoubt w hen God's great sunrise finds ns ont. O! I hate spiritualism because .. takes advantage of people when they •ler the lx*rearrtncnt* this life. Another remark 1 h: regard to spiritualism is, that afleir^ofthc night. The Davenports, the Foxes, the Fowlers, aud all tin mediums prefer the night, or, if it is in the daytime, a darkened room. Why r Decansu deception is more successful ii the night. Home of the things done spiritualism are not frauds, but are he ascribed to some occult law of t hich will after a while be de- ated; but nine hnndred and ninety-nine out of a thousand of tbeii feats are arraut and unmitigated ham- bug.. All that writing on a medinm is been found out to have been y an iron pencil rnbbed hi ami, not heavily enough t b, but heavily tnrb the blood and tlea, aftei while, the Urge red letters come. Men have locked the door and put the key in their pocket and arrested ike swindler and there ! the table and that these letters read without opening ha’ been found to hfive been cut skillfully at the side and afterwards slyly put together with gum arabic and the tn: who nnder a heavy blanket read id the table qnaking. >ow what God thinks of all these things. He says in oue place: agaiust lother placee ill be . 'Thou shalt not suffer nd lest yon should make too wide oargin between spiritualism and witch craft, He groups them together in the text and says: “There shall not be found atnoug yon any consnlter with r spirits, or a wizard, or a nec er. for all that do these thingi abomination unto the Lord,” and then the still more remarkable pas-, sage which says. “The soul ‘ turneth after such as liave fan pirits, and after wizards, to horing after them, I will even si face against that soul, and will eul off from among his people,”, a ~are of passages showing that ver speaks of these evils in any oth- way than with livid thnnders of in dignation. Another remark 1 have to make it regard to spiritualism is, that it takei advantage of people when they an weak and morbid with trouble.' VV« [ose a friead. The house is dark, the dark, the future seems dark, d ia our rebellion and io oar weakness the power to marshal a liosi and recaptore onr loved one from the next world, we would marshal the host 0! bow we long to speak with the dsad. .Spiritualism comes ia at that moment, when we are all worn out, perhaps by six weeks* or two months' watching, all worn out, body, mind and sonl, and says: “Now I will open the door; you shall hear the voices; take your place around the table; all be quiet now.” Five minutes pau ‘long; no response from the piritualist. They met ii through his wonderful performances, and the other man by slight-of-hand did the tame things. “By their frnite shall know them*' is the test that Christ gave, and by that test I con- Jade that the tree of spiritualism, vhich yields bad frnit, and bad fruit continually, is one of the worst trees in all the orchard of necromancy. The postoffice which it has established be tween this world and the next is an- •ther Star Route postofiice kept np at — !*v. having de ■aet expense without e o live red one letter from the other t to this. In oar times, spiritualist proposes a materialization. ' I hold in my hand a specimen ol spiritualistic photography—spiritnHlists bringing np ne dead, and then clothing them ii_ bodies somewhat similar to the bodies hey once had but somewhat shadowy. Here are photographs. This, of editor who calls back a dead editress, She comes clothed in materialization, her cheek against his forehead. The picture of the living and the picture of the dead. And all these pictures— me I cannot show you, foi Christ. Men have rashed in, as one from this church wsnt behind scene, and he found the macks and the false hair and all the apparatus for building np n body. In all cases a swindle. I have been kept folly aware Y all the movements of spiritnalism by newspapers and magazines sent me every week, some of them marked with editorial lead-pencil that I might not important parte, and I have read a score of columns of letters the next world to this, model maatioe, for I must compli them by saying that merer before was preesed la the a of space so much bad ^ orthography a bad grammar aad bad n ♦ rorld. Ten minutes, titieen minutes, twenty minutes. Nervous system all the time more and more agitated. Thir ty minates; no response from the next world. Forty minutes pass, and the table begins to shiver. The departed spirit to be evoked ha* the name of John. The medium now will call over the letter* of the alphabet, and when be comes to the right letter to spell the word, there will be two raps. The —•*: " the alphabet until Two taps. Two rap*. Comes to the letter Comes to the letter Comes to the Ii Now the spirit is present, and the dium aays: •• Are yon a spirit?” Two raps. “Are yon happy?” Two raps; answer in the affirmative. Then the medinm sits down, bis hand twitching. tossing, and the pen and the ink and the paper haviag beeu provided, he writes ont the message from the next world. What ia remarkable is that these spirits, after being in the illumi nation ol heaven, some of them for years, forget how to spell right. Peo ple who were excellent grammarians come back and with their first sentence smash all the laws of English gram- mat. I received such a letter. 1 hap pened to know the man that eigned it. I* « M * miserably spelled letter. I seat it back with th* remark. “Yon jost send word to those spirits that they had better go to school and study orthography.” It oomes in time of weakness to overthrow the aonl. Now, jaet think of spirit* enthroned in heav en coming down to crawl nnder n table and break crockery and ring the bell before sapper is ready, and rattle the abutters on n gusty night. What eon- eolation in such miserable staff as com pared with the consolation that oar departed friends, free from toil and sin and pain, are forever happy, and that we wiU j .ia them, not ia mysterious atd half utterances whieh make the hair stand on end and make cold chills creep down the back, bnt in a reunion book was found to have had a phial phosphoric oil.by which anybody conld read under a blanket and legerdemsii and sleight-of-hand optical delnsioi account for nine hnndred and ninety nine ont of one thousand of their per formances. These are daed* of the night. I suppose almost every oi sometimes has been touched by son., hallucination. Indigestion from e late sapper generally accounts foi yon will only take in generous propor tions at 11 o’clock at night, lobstei salad and mince pie and ice cream and lemonade and a little cocoanut, yoo will be able to see 'fifty materialized spirits! AU the mediums of the pas* did their work iu tlie night. Witch ol held her seance in the night. Deeds of darkness. Away with thii religion of spooks. Another remark I have to mske it regard to spiritualism is that, it min the physical health. Look in np m ai audience ot spiritualist*. Cadaverous pale, worn out, exhausted. Ilaudi cold and clammy. Nothing prospers bnt long hair—soft marshes yielding rank grass. Something startling go ing front that room, clothed in '' Table lidgctty as though to get loose and dauce. Voices stpnlcral. Rappinga spiritualist who had «f epilepsy or catalepsy. great many ri world have not duro the hard r the whole uniYcrec is out of tune as as you are concerned. Better tam with the chemist’s retort that n smite you dead, or with the engine* rithoi hands aud i one long, and feet, and be happy, happy iu such misfortune; but alas! i your nervous system is gone. On- reason why I hate with nnutterabh hatred modern spiritualism is that i strikes right at the nervous forces oft man’s being. You have yet to shoe me one Spiritualist who has I con long ' the belief who has a healthy phy cal constitution. Another remark 1 have to i regard to spiritnalism is that it social life and married life. marital and social curse. Deeds of dark ness and orgies of obscenity have trau ipired undei ^ you the story, i will not pollute m> tongue or your ears >yith the recital Enough to know that, the ciiuiina courts have often been called n p..n t ftop the criminality. How many fami- t phn lies have been broken op here lyn and throughout the United State*! Women by the hundreds have by spir itnaliam been pnshed off into proffiigacy. It employs all t.._. seology about “spiritnal effibi and “affinical relation,” and “spiritus matches, and the whole vocabulary o' free love. It is at war with the mar riage relation- I read you from one ot their prominent papers, where it says: “Marriage ilization.' goes th* The pirhnalist papei .aniage controls education is the fountain of selfishne-s the cause of intemperance and debao chery, the source aud aggravation o poverty, the prolific mother of diaeaM * crime. We charge all these brntal i and crimes upon the niarriag- institution, the same as we charge rev- Jutious, imprisonments, banishment! and political executions, upon despotism The society that women living in freedom, sustaining themselves by their own industry, deal ingwith each other in equity, respect- h other’s suaereignty and go’ ned hy their attractions, alism had full string, it would tarn ‘*“e world into a pandemonium of uxlity. JU is an uucican and an i ultcrou. religion, aud the sooner it gt dowu to the pit from which it came the better for earth and Heaven. For the sake of man’s honor and woman' pnritv let it perish. I wish I could gather up all the raps it has ever hearc from spirits bless or damned on its owi thundering rap of annihil head ii Another remark I have to make regard to spiritualism is that it pi daces insanity. There is not anu, lum from Ban go, Maine, to Ban Fran cisco, California, where there are n< the torn and bleeding victims of spii itnaliam. Yon go into an asylum and eny: "Wka*. is the matter with this man?” The doctors will tell you again and again, “Bpiritnalism demented him.” They have carried off into men tal midnight—senators, judges oi courts, and at onetime they came near capturing a President of the United States. At Flashing, Long Island, there was a happy home. The father became infatuated spiritnalism, forsook bis home, took the $15,000, the only $15,000 he had. surrendered them to n New York medinm, three times attempted to Uke his own life and then was sent tathe State lunatic asylnm. Yon put your hand in the Wand of this influence and it will lead jrou down to darkum, eternal dark ness, where spirttnalimn hobs ad ever lasting seance. Y»n remember the steamer Atlantic started from Europe for America. After it had been ont .... .. had been ont long enough to get to tbo middle of the ocean the machinery, broke, and fer days and weeks the steamer Atlantic tossed in the waves. Well, there were many friends of the passengers in these cities and they said, “That vessel has gone down; it is a month since she was due; that vessel must have sunk.”— to spiritnal There mediums to learn the fate of that •el. The spirits were gathered around Borne of then sane asy lum to pats the rest of their lives Rut one day the vessel came to the wharf, and there was embracing of long absent ones, but some of those iutuptothe insane asylums t< ' icarcerated by thii find thei w foul cheat of bell—spiritnalism. ^What did Judge Edmonds say? lie admitted this: “There is a fascination about con sultation with the spirits of the dead that has a tendency to lead people off from their right judgment and stil into them a fanaticism that volting tathe natural mind. Bpiritnalisip uqt £mq*iu disci ples but ii rains its mediams. No •ooujr had the Gadarean swine become spiritnal mediums than they went n avalanche of pork,' to the . . t,on of all the herdsmen. Spiritualism is bad for a man, bad for woman, bad for a beast. Another remark I have to make regard to sniritnalibrn is that it mi the soul. It first makes a man quar 't an infidel, then it makes him half then it makes him a full ii ideL The whole system is bnilt c the insufficiency of the Bible as a rot elation. If God j a ever struck square in the face it is when men sit at a table, put their hands on the table andprac neatly »»}” “Come, you spirits of tb« imparted, and make a revelation in re- £•** to l *' e future world which the Bible has not made. Gome, father, come, mother, companion iu life, my children, come, tell me something about that future world which the Bible IS notable to tell me.” Although the bible says he that adds a wor.l to it shall be found a liar, m$n are ail the timi getting these revelations, or trying tc got them,from the next world. ’ Spirit- lalism Is useless, becauso if it tolls ui uly what the Bible does, it is a super laity, and if it tells ns what the Bible loes not tell, then it is a lie: You will ither, my brother, my sister, you will either have to give up the Bible or give ap spiritualism. No one ever for a very great length of time kept both of them. I received a letter the other day -““•-day from a gentleman saying he Christian and a spiritualist and that he had been brought up under the excellent teaching of Theodore Parker, of Boston. Theodore Parker was a worse infidel than Tom Paino because Tom Paine never pretended to bo any- a infidel. I can understand brought np under Theodore believe spiritualism or any- bingelse. Yonwilleitherha .... up spirituals or give up the Bible, llow do I know that spiritualism is antago- ■“Stic to the Christian religion? I know by the fact that spiritualists call up tho spirits of those who believed in the religion here, bnt coming ho next world, denounce it. They call up for instance, Dow. the ■angelist. What does he do? their call he denounces all Chris- They cal! up Toro says ne is stopping at the with John Banyan! They s idolators. '•H up John Wesley who dcnoi...^ Christianity, coming from the spiritual vorld,although all his life he so glori ously preached it. Andrew Jackson Davis, oue of thsir apostles, says that he New Testament is a dismal echo >f a barbaric age. In another place he lays the Bible is a pen and ink relic of Christianity. I have in my hand a book spiritualistic service in this city tablo must move have it move under the offices of industrions housewifery. Let your children know there are n. ghosts except those that walk on two or four feet—human or beastial. Do not go to get somebody to tell your for tune. Tell your own fortune by pat ting your trust in God and doing yonr best. I will tell jour fortune. things work together for good to those that love God.” Do not insult yonr de parted friends by asking them to come into a dark closet to cut capera.or crawl under the extension table. Remember there is only one spirit you haves right to invoke, aud that is the ground, the glorious, the august, the holy, the om nipotent Spirit of God that hovers thii morning around yonr sonl and that has been around you all yonr lifelong. That Spirit now moving upon your sonl. Grieve Him not away. The vokt dropping through the roof, coming in at the window, filling all this room door to door and from door to ceiling, with tender and overmastering intens ion saying, “My rpirit shall not al ways strive.” A Tornado Marriage. ia r*Rri.r.xiN(i i-aKnioAMKXTov as old MAID AXI> AN OLD RACHELOR. A qneer incident was canted by the recent tornado in Whitley county, Ky. On the edge of a little burg there were old log houses, in one of which re- 1 an old maiil named Sallie Wil liams and in the other an old bachelor named John Robinson. The blixxard came along and blew the two houses confused criss-cross pile of log*, and lumber. And ii small space, the old maid and old ‘nextricably ]>enned np bachelor together, thongh strange' , ther one had been injured in the'' least. They had to stand so close together as touch elbows, and as there was a neigh borhood enmity between the two, the situation can be more easily imagined than described. Sallie sniffed and trembled violently, while John grew and finally blnrt- hotand-cold by t< hearty oath. 'ght, John Robinson get mad and swear; do—it’s just like yonr impudence, after tearing my honse all pieces!” Why, Sallie—that is. Miss Wil- didn’t touch youi \ hy, liams—I d es, you did, John'Robin* along in yonr old tumble down cabin and knocked down my house”— emphasis hard on house- profane old wretch!’ 1 Why, you cantankerous old wo- , I didn’t go to do it—I couldn’t help it!” :ould*. What uitl you go flying about with yonr old cabin knocking folks’ honse* t ou and yonr cabin had stayed at home ly house would not have been hurt. I’ll have the law on yon as soon as I get out.” “But how the deuce are we to get out? We’ll have to stay here two or thrree nights, probably, till somebody finds od-cnrling screech Sallie ga vi This subdued t. He never could stand •ars, so lie set himself to console Sallie. lodging np to her John cooed: Now, don’t Miss Bailie; there’s no in crying; somebody’ll be snre to us before many hoars,and I pledge that ; _ _ while we are together.” Sallie sniffled and sniffled, aodlook- a-bet her *1 with pars ago. It contains a catechism and hymn book. The catechism has these questions and answers: n net u our clitel baptist Frequent ablution of wal What Is our inspiration-.* sir and sunshine. What Is our prayer? Physical exercise. And then it goes to show that a great proportion of their religious service is a of calisthenics. Then, when nt to arouse the devotion of the people to the highest pitch, they give the hymn on the 05th page: rho night hath gathered up her silken nges. the 15th page: v Come to th* woods, heigh-ho! But you say you are not such a foo! ill be it you keep oi iihyour spiritual!) “don’t you really think it ‘might uthcnticatc Christianity, don’i know there are some people who deny there is any fntnre world? and don' that if spirits conic back will persuade them that there is another world? hat question I answer in the ringing words of the Son of God, “If they be lieve not Moses and the prophets, ther will they be persuaded though " se from the dead.” I believe this sermon nnder God i._._ vc some from disease and death and darkness and doom. I think we have ipoken of by the apos- le when he says, “In the latter times some shall depart from th* faith, giving seducing spirit*.” And I think > much as now the words of my you any consulter with familiar spirits, •ira wizard, or a necromancer, for all that do these thinge are an abomina- > the Lord.” And that other phatic passage which aays: ‘The sonl that turneth after such at have familiar spirits; and after wizards *o go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that sonl, and will him off from among his people/' I invite yon to a Christian , not a midnight bnt a. noonday seance, rhis whole church is a family. Here is the table. Pot the Bible Then let ne put onr hands Bible and listen if we can catch l from the next world. The answer comes: “The secret things belong on to the Lord ear God, bat those things which are revealed belong to ns and to children forever/ That is a voice from the next world. Before yon quit this Christian seance I want yon to romiee that yon will trnst in the Vord ot God as it is nntil the light of th* eternal word flashes upon us. Do aof sit at a worldly seanca either in fun or in earnest. Have yonr tables so well made that they will not tip. If the look that he conldn •allie was pleased nr his proposition. John but he did, finally, wb_ does nnder such circumstances—1m “stuck np closer and clo-er to Bailie and pot his arms around her. Sallio shook and shivered, bnt final ly quieted down. Then John talked and talke^and Bailie jawed back in a coo ing sort of a way; aud the hours sped along till night came, and the night passed in dozing and talking till morn ing c My gracious, dolin Robinson, what’ll we do? How |>eopl« will talk about my staying in a lumber pile with you all night? Boo-hoo-hoo!” Then John lioo-iioued in sympathy, till finally a bright idea struck him. “Let us get married, St Hie* before we leave this pile.” Sallie agreed to this. 8o, when tbs first man to pass that way discovered them amt proposed to release them .John and Sallie both objected and asked that ister be sent for. The discover ers concluded that the storm had made them crazy. Nevertheless one of them sent off for a minister, who was soon the ground, and l>egan to talk sooth ingly to them. John bade him to stop all that and " 'ry, and concluded by :i the top of the pile of dsbris, so that she could see them down at the bottom of the hole, toM them to join hands, and soon had them tied good anil tight. Then the neighbors dug them out of their wedding-hole, and they came out smil ing, and they are now living Iiappy to gether. On the second Tuesday in April the 10th Grand Monthly Drawing of The Louisiana State Lottery took place in New Orleans. Ticket No. 80,800 drew Fiist Capital Prize of $75,000, and it was sold in fifths at$l each; one was held by Elbert 8. Mon.gomery, of Mt. Olivet Ky., paid through First Nation- ol Bank of Mayville, Ky., another to J. O. Brien Richmond, Ya. ( paid throngh Messrs. Lancaster dr Lake, the Second Capital of $25,298 also sold in fifths at $l-each one to Isadora Isaacs, clothing store keeper in Modesto, Cal. The Third Capital Prize of $10,- 000 fell to ticket No. 25, 388, sold in fifths also at $1 each; one to Norman Sauuders, Washington City. D. C., another to Robt. .1, Walker, of the same city The Fourth Capital Prizes* two of $0,000 each, went to No*. 33,- 147 and 44,135, sold in fifths also at $l each; one to B. T. Holmes, one to Jee. Fox. coal dealer, both of Fort Wayne, Ind; another to C. T. Desb- ields, Sbetman, Texas, throngh Th* Merchants and Planters Bank there. The Grand Kxtrordinaiy Semi-Annual the I69th Monthly Drawing will occur on Tuesday, the 17th day of Jane, when $522,500 will be scattered in snm flu.OOfi to $50. Tickets an $10; tenths, $1, and any farther information can be had on application to M. A. Danphin, New Orleans, La.. Do net allow worms to cheat yonr ebil Iren ont of their living. Shriner’s Irdian Yennifnge will destroy these miserable pests, and give the little fel- r armors for the battle of life. ! Unit Bit:

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, May 16, 1884, Image 1